9/11 Commission Showed Iraq-al Qaeda link...

This FOX News story recounts how even though the 9/11 Commission didn't find hard links between Iraq and Sept. 11th, 2001, there definitely was business conducted between Iraq and al Qaeda:

"The report says bin Laden had nowhere near the money to fund Al Qaeda's $30-million-a-year budget. So where did Al Qaeda get the money? The Sept. 11 commission doesn’t know... the Sept. 11 report reveals that Iraq and Al Qaeda started communicating after the United States kicked Saddam out of Kuwait in the first Gulf War in 1991. Bin Laden "himself met with a senior Iraqi intelligence officer" in Sudan in 1994 or 1995, the report says. In 1996, the report says that bin Laden began having serious money problems that required him to cut back spending. Bin Laden sent out a number of feelers to the Iraqi regime in 1997, offering some cooperation. The next year, two Al Qaeda members reportedly went to Iraq to meet with Iraqi intelligence, and an Iraqi delegation traveled to Afghanistan to meet with bin Laden. It was also in 1998 that... bin Laden called "for the murder of any American, anywhere on Earth." Suddenly, according to the Sept. 11 report, "Bin Laden had become the rich man of the jihad movement"... [and] that was the year the Oil-for-Food program really started pumping billions into Saddam's secret accounts..."

... hrrmmmm... sounds like there was a bit more behind the claims of Pres. Bush than has been widely claimed in the mainstream up to now, eh???

I have been watching a story that Fox News is presenting tonight, called "U.N. Blood Money: Oil-for-Food Program"... it's really laying a lot of info. out up-front... after watching this program, I am happier than ever that the President decided to go into Iraq.